April Perry Confirmed as Federal Judge for Northern District of Illinois
She becomes the 214 federal judge confirmed by the U.S. Senate during Joe Biden's presidency.
The U.S. Senate today held a recorded vote to confirm one individual as an Article III federal judge. With this confirmation, 214 judges nominated by President Joe Biden have now been confirmed by the Senate. With today’s action, 167 of Biden’s judicial nominees have been approved for service on federal district courts.
In a 51-44 vote, April M. Perry was confirmed as a Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is Biden’s eighth confirmation to the 23-person court, with no additional vacancies at this time. Once commissioned, seven of Biden’s nominees will remain in active service while another was elevated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Perry assumes the Chicago-based seat previously held by Nancy L. Maldonado, who was elevated to the appellate court in July 2024. A double nominee of President Biden, Maldonado served on the district court from August 2022 to July 2024 and remains in active service on the Seventh Circuit. Perry was nominated to this seat on the federal judiciary by Biden in July 2024.
Perry served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois from 2004 to 2016. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as the Chief Deputy State’s Attorney and Chief Ethics Officer for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. From 2019 to 2022, she became General Counsel for Ubiety Technologies. Since 2022, she has served as Senior Counsel for Global Investigations and Fraud and Abuse Prevention at GE HealthCare.